(1) Term of Interest
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(2) Place Answer from Column 3 Below
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(3) Choose from below the best explanation for the termlisted in Column 1 and place the corresponding “Letter” answer inColumn 2
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- Sunlight
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- An additional effect that follows as the result of some changein a system
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- Carboniferous Period
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- Average conditions that prevail in Earth’s atmosphere(temperature, humidity, cloudiness, and so forth) and the resultingconditions on Earth’s surface
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- Climate
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- The layer of the atmosphere that comprises about 80% of itstotal mass and where most weather phenomena occur.
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- Weathering
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- The dominant energy flow to Earth
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- Troposphere
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- The rate of energy production or consumption, often measured inunits of Watts
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- Stratosphere
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- A process whereby rain carries carbonic acid (formed in theatmosphere when carbon dioxide dissolves in atmospheric waterdroplets) to Earth’s surface where the acid reacts with exposedrocks.
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- Coal, oil, and natural gas
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- The portion of the atmosphere where the “ozone layer” isfound
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- Power
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- The process whereby chlorophyll-containing organisms use solarenergy to make carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water.
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- Fuels
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- Average rate of energy-consumption of persons living in theUnited States in the 21st Century
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- Feedback effect
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- A period some 360 million to 300 million years ago whenprolific growth of forests led to the burial of carbon thateventually became coal
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- Photosynthesis
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- The energy input to a system such as a power plant, and thatincludes any energy that ends up as waste heat
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- Energy Flows
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- The SI unit of power equal to 1 Joule per second (J/s)
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- 10,000 Watts
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- The common fossil fuels
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- Watt
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- Energy sources, in the form of substances whose molecular ornuclear configurations store energy
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- Primary energy
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- Streams of energy that arrive at or near Earth’s surface at amore or less steady rate, bringing energy whether it’s needed ornot
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